A. D. 1220. 



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ed in Cornwall, it is probable that pilchards, which annually vifit that 

 country in innumerable flioles, were the fpecies of fifh cured by the im- 

 proved procefs. 



It is worthy of obfervation, that the German writers trace their trade 

 in falted herrings no forther back than the year i 241 , or at the farthefl: 

 1236. [Codex diplom. Brandenh. V. i, p. 45 ; V. ii, p. 430, and authorities 

 there quoted.'] But, to fiiy nothing of the herrings caught on the coafl 

 of Norway in the tenth century, thofeyZ;//'/*^^ at Rugen, and thofe pack- 

 ed in barrels at Ziriczee, in the twelfth century, mufl undoubtedly have 

 been falted. (See above, pp. 274, 338.) And there is good reafon to 

 believe, that, both in England and Scotland, herrings were cured with 

 fait for exportation at leaft Ibme ages before the time now under our 

 confideration. (See above, pp. 284, 303, 306, 325, 344, 376.) 



1222 — Coining dies were delivered to the proper officers for making 

 pennies, halfpennies, and farthings, of filver ; and all the money of this 

 new coinage was round *. [Madox's Hiji. of the excheq. c. 22, § 4, note a.] 



1224 — At this time the following, befides London, were efteemed the 

 principal ports of England, as appears from the king's orders to their 

 magiftrates, in confequence of the expiration of a truce with France, to 

 lay an embargo on all veflels lying in, or arriving in, the ports, and to 

 keep them in readinefs for the king's fervice. 



Portefmue, now For tf moid h ; 

 Sorham, Shoreham ; 



Suhamton, 



Safford, 



La Pole, 



Exon, 



Briftol, 



Dertmue, 



Noi'wic, 



Gernemue, 



Orefor[d], 



Dunewic, 



Southampton ; 

 Seaford ; 

 Pool; 

 Exeter ; 

 Briftol; 

 Dartmouth ; 

 Norzvich ; 

 Yarmouth ; 

 Orford; 

 Dunwich ; 



Gipewic, Ipfwich ; 



Lenne, Lyiin ; 



Ere well, Orwell haven ; 



Eremuth, unknown ; 



Dovr, Dover ; 



Rumenel, Rumney ; 



Rya, Rye ; 



Kingeflon, unknown ; f 



Eya,_ Eye ; 



Hailing, Haftings ; % 

 Pageham, Fagham near Chichefter ; 



Pevenes, Pevenfey. 



The ports in Cornwall and Devon-fhire are not named, the orders for 

 the whole fhires being addreffed to the Ihirrefs. 



• Some lines of Robert de Brunne, defcribing 

 a coinage of round pennies, halfpennies, and far- 

 things, by Edward I, have been inferted by Stow- 

 in his Annales and by Camden in his Remains ; and 

 being thereby more generally known, they have 

 mifled thofe, wlio have taken only a fuperficial 

 glance of fnch matteis, to conclude tha^ tljere was 

 no round money fmaller than pennies till the year 

 X279. We have feen that round halfpennies were 

 coined by Henry I, and round halfpennies and alio 



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fai-things by John, fome of which are ftill rcmaiu- 

 ing in cabinets. See above, pp. 316, ^"jG.— Pem- 

 broke's Nummi TT. 7, 23. — Folkes on coins, plate 2- 



f Hull was not yet called Kingfton^ and King- 

 flon upon Thames could not with any pi-opriety 

 be called a port. 



\ Though there was a general order addrefied 

 to the Cinque ports, we find there were alfo parti- 

 cular orders addrelTed to fome, perhaps to each, of 

 them on this and on other iirailar occalionS/. 



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